Pregnancy Update: Week 12

I’m officially Bumpin’ over here! I know I will look back one day and laugh at how small I am, but for now, I feel huge!

I went on a 2.5 mile run/walk yesterday. The weather was beautiful, so I had to take advantage. I have only been nauseated in the afternoon and evenings, so the mornings have been better the past few days. Other than that, I think that last time I exercised was a 2 mile run/walk last Thursday. I was planning to run 4/5 last weekend but it rained most of the time. Hoping to get it in this weekend.

Maternity Clothes?: My sweet friend Jen was kind enough to send me some of hers that she has outgrown, but I have not bought any of my own. I have bought a few workout things from Under Armour in bigger sizes that will hopefully hold me over for a couple more months at least.

Stretch Marks?: Not yet, but I’m not holding my breath. I have stretch marks on my legs from when I hit a huge growth spurt in 5th grade, so I have had them before…

Sleep: WAS really good but the past few nights it’s been tossing and turning. I have no problem falling asleep but then I wake up every couple hours wide awake, and of course to get up and pee.

Miss Anything?: I don’t drink a lot of alcohol, but with the weather warming up I have been having serious cravings for a Margarita or Pina Colada (I have been craving cold/frozen things like slushies so not surprising).

Aversions? Nothing makes me gag, but most foods just don’t sound appetizing. Mealtime is no fun because I literally just stare at the refrigerator because nothing sounds “good” to me. I force myself to at least snack all day though.

Comments

I’m so excited for you! I saw you and your family during Princess weekend on the Boardwalk but you were to far away to yell and I didn’t want to look like a fool! The exhaustion will get better and the forgetfulness will last at least through the baby’s first year. It’s called “Pregnancy Brain”!

I don’t know if this will bother you or not but when I was pregnant I had a lot of hip pain. The tendons and muscles on your hips loosen so they can spread which cause pain. We got a memory foam mattress topper and it made all the difference in the world. Just a suggestion, should that happen to you. Oh yeah, and a giant pillow if great, especially as the belly gets bigger.
LOVE the tiny baby bump. So sweet!

Awww! I see that sweet little baby bump! I love it! Glad you’re starting to feel a little better! And once all the nausea is gone…food will taste so good! Food tastes amazing when you’re pregnant for some reason lol! The sickness went away for me in the second trimester. So hopefully yours will all be gone soon!

It’s a good thing we’re heading into spring and summer so you can get those slushies and snowcones. If you’re craving a margarita, you can get one flavored like a margarita since there’s no alcohol. We’ve got a snow cone stand in Frisco that does stuff like that.

Congrats Heather! I had morning (all day sickness) and extreme fatigue during the first trimester but I felt soooo much better around 12-14 weeks. It was like I woke up one day and was a different person! Staying active usually helps with fatigue and sickness too. I craved different things with my two pregnancies; with my daughter I craved fruit and with my son I craved hamburgers (and meat in general).

16 weeks over here! I never got *sick* but I did have the nausea, and it subsided right around the 12-13 mark, although I still have random WTF nausea moments.

As far as food goes, my savior was smoothies. It took care of the craving for ice cream and dessert-like treats with something semi-sweet that incorporated all the veggies I was having a tough time with.

I’m 32 weeks (woo hoo). I feel your pain about food not sounding good. Until about 15 weeks, I had evening sickness. If I ate after 6 pm, I got sick, and I couldn’t eat anything italian. Zofran definitely helped. I drank a lot of sprite, ginger ale and ate a lot of saltines. Hang in there!

I ate sooo many cheezits with Max it wasn’t even funny… bought the individual bags box from Sams twice and just kept a couple bags with me when ever I was out. Morning sickness started to slack off some around 13 weeks, but I also had bad acid reflux and so started to feel sick again beginning of the third trimester. Also loved preggy pop drops, just enough sour and sugar to help when I started to feel sick and had to keep going, they sell them at Motherhood Maternity. Don’t worry about feeling huge, you have the opposite at the end. I always forget how big I was at the end!

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